| Adjacent 1. (a.) Lying near, bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. 2. (n.) That which is adjacent. Thesaurus Entries abutting, adjoining, attached, bordering, close-by, closest, connected, connecting, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise, face to face, handy, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, linked, nearby, nearest, neighbor, neighboring, next, successive, touching |